Interactive Chinese question answering system in medicine diagnosis

Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education, ITME 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 282-286

  Xipeng, Qiu ^a   Jiatuo, Xu ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; FEEDBACKS]; INCREMENTAL METHODS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEMS; WEB SITES;

ONTOLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 62949203192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITME.2008.4743871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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